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overjoy
[ oh-ver-joi ]
verb (used with object)
- to cause to feel great joy or delight; elate:
It overjoys me to hear of your good fortune. I was overjoyed at her safe arrival.
overjoy
/ ˌəʊvəˈdʒɔɪ /
verb
- tr to give great delight to
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- over·joyed adjective
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Example Sentences
Chrissy Sebald, a soccer coach and foster parent, was overjoyed last year with the district’s decision to give a free meal to all students.
HBCU advocates were overjoyed not only at the amount of money but at the vote of confidence in their work.
I have had the Honour to be known to that Prelate a long time, and was overjoy'd at the opportunity of paying my respects to him.
I was overjoy'd to be of this Party, because I had never yet travell'd this Way.
We were overjoy'd at this Deliverance, which we had Reason to think a happy one.
His overjoy at obtaining liberty, after so long a struggle for it, led to his excesses and his ruin.
Well—I am strangely overjoy'd at his coming—never to be sure was anything so damn'd unlucky!
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